WHEN C.J. HAUGHEY ‘DROVE MAGGIE MAD’—IRELAND AND THE FALKLANDS WAR

By Stephen Kelly Ownership of the Falkland Islands, an archipelago of an estimated 200 islands scattered in the South Atlantic, 300 miles off the coast of Argentina and approximately 8,000 […]

THE ‘GOOD OLD IRA’—REMEMBERING REPUBLICAN VETERANS AFTER 1969

By Jack Hepworth In April 1972 it was estimated that there were some 32,000 living veterans of the ‘Old IRA’, Cumann na mBan and Na Fianna Éireann. Through the 1970s […]

‘DUSKY DOUGHBOYS’—AFRICAN-AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN NORTHERN IRELAND DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

By Simon Topping The sign in Bessbrook, Co. Armagh, was clear—‘Dance for the Blackmen’—yet when some African-American troops arrived they were refused entry, to their dismay. This seeming importation of […]

‘THE STRONGEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD’—KATIE SANDWINA’S 1928 TOUR OF IRELAND

By Conor Heffernan In 1928 strongwoman Katie Brumbach or ‘Katie Sandwina’ (born in Austria in 1884) spent roughly a month touring Ireland with Carmo’s Circus. Billed in some quarters as […]

UNFRAMING MARGARET ALLEN, HRHA (1832–1914)

By Derville Murphy Margaret Allen, the first female honorary member of the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), was an artist whose paintings were concerned with the social conditions of the time. […]